Hubert Godefroid, born on 13 May 1925 in Esch-sur-Alzette, lived in Schifflange with his mother and siblings when he received the call for duty in February 1944. However, he chose not to answer this call and embarked on an escape to France with the assistance of the Luxembourgish resistance group LRL, assuming the new identity of “Garbel H.”. His attempt was unsuccessful and he was arrested, leading to his imprisonment in Luxembourg on 27 February 1944. He was subsequently transferred to prison in Metz in May 1944, Papenburg in August 1944 and Berlin in December 1944. On the night of 30-31 January 1944, he was executed at Sonnenburg prison along with 820 other prisoners, including 90 Luxembourgers.
In the days after his arrest, two of his sisters were deported to a concentration camp for helping him to evade the draft. His mother was deported to a concentration camp on 3 August 1944, only a few days before the remaining siblings were relocated to a resettlement camp in Boberstein (Bobrów), which is now located in Poland. They eventually returned to Luxembourg between April and July 1945. Tragically, one sister lost her life in a concentration camp in Marburg in February 1945.
